CAIE S2 2015 November — Question 3

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS2 (Statistics 2)
Year2015
SessionNovember
TopicHypothesis test of a normal distribution

3 From a random sample of 65 people in a certain town, the proportion who own a bicycle was noted. From this result an \(\alpha \%\) confidence interval for the proportion, \(p\), of all people in the town who own a bicycle was calculated to be \(0.284 < p < 0.516\).
  1. Find the proportion of people in the sample who own a bicycle.
  2. Calculate the value of \(\alpha\) correct to 2 significant figures.